Count Fakhr of Tripoli

Count Fakhr of Tripoli (1052-) was the first Count of Tripoli, and he was a vassal of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Biography
Fakhr was born in 1052 to the Ammarids, a dynasty of Sunni Muslim Berbers. Fakhr was the sheikh of Tripoli in present-day Lebanon until 1099, when Duke Raymond I of Tripoli made him his vassal as the count of Tripoli and had him convert to Catholicism. He was one of the first forced Christian Saracens of the time. He married Countess Alpais of Tripoli.